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| Feb 18, 2022 | Report: 2021 hit a record high of security vulnerabilities | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
According to a report by Risk Based Security, las... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Report: 2021 hit a record high of security vulnerabilities | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here.
According to a report by Risk Based Security, last year hit a record high of 28,695 vulnerabilities — which is simply too many for any organization to re... |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Record number of vulnerabilities disclosed in 2021 | Risk Based Security (RBS) has today released its 2021 Year End Vulnerability QuickView Report showing that a total of 28,695 vulnerabilities were disclosed last year.
This the highest number recorded to date. Now that the vulnerability disc... |
| Jan 16, 2022 | FOSS News №104 — дайджест материалов о свободном и открытом ПО за 27 декабря 2021 — 16 января 2022 года | Всем привет!
Продолжаем дайджесты новостей и других материалов о свободном и открытом ПО и немного о железе. Всё самое главное про пингвинов и не только, в России и мире.
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| Nov 16, 2021 | Cybersecurity: The Ultimate Guide to Defending Against Cyber Attacks | Think about how much of the world relies on the internet. The government, military, academia, health care industry, and private industry not only collect, process, and store unprecedented amounts of data in cyberspace - they also rely on cr... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Mimecast : Identifying and Reporting Data Breaches | Most organizations are going to have to deal with a data breach at some point. With so much at stake, knowing how to recognize and report one is crucial.
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Data breaches are now so common that many experts believe it's inevitable ... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | ZeroFox acquires dark web threat intelligence company Vigilante | ZeroFox, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies detect risks found on social media and digital channels, has announced it has acquired dark web threat intelligence company Vigilante.
Vigilante — not to be confused with the controversi... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | How to preserve consumer trust amid new data privacy regulations | Following the passing of Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act and the Washington Privacy Act currently making its way through the legislature, states across the country are working to expand consumer rights over their personal data. As r... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | MIMECAST LIMITED
Mimecast : Top 9 Reasons You Need a Data Privacy Framework | Data privacy is a business, technology and regulatory issue that matters more and more every day. Here is how a privacy framework can help your company handle it.
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New regulations, technologies and business arrangements keep rais... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Is Hardsec the Future of Cybersecurity? | Ernest Hamilton, Tech Times 09 March 2021, 10:03 pm
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Malicious cyber activity is big business - it costs the US economy more than $5 billion annually. According to the US Council of Economic ... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Number of 2020 vulnerability disclosures set to overtake 2019 | Despite a sharp decrease of 19.2 percent observed earlier in the year, vulnerability disclosures in 2020 are expected to exceed 2019's level according to Risk Based Security.
The company's VulnDB team aggregated 23,269 vulnerabilities discl... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Why Enterprises Must Adopt Stronger Identity Verification Methods To Combat Rising Fraud In 2021 | As employees remain remote and enterprises continue to operate online in 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical for organizations to know, without a doubt, that the customer logging in is who they say they are and not a f... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | 2020 saw fewer data breaches but more records exposed | The number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48 percent in 2020. However, more than 37 billion records were compromised, an increase of 141 percent.
A report released today by Risk Based Security reveals that this is by far th... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | 2020 sees huge increase in records exposed in data breaches | Image: iStockphoto/Rawpixel
Data breaches now seem to be a never-ending story as we constantly hear about one company after another being compromised. The true damage of these breaches lies in how much private or confidential information is... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Number of 2020 vulnerabilities set to overtake last year | The latest report from Risk Based Security reveals that the number of vulnerability disclosures this year is back on track to reach or surpass 2019 after a decline in the first quarter.
Earlier in the year there had been a sharp decline of ... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Microsoft, Oracle, and Google top list of companies with most vulnerabilities disclosed in Q2 | iStock/weerapatkiatdumrong
The number of vulnerabilities being disclosed by major technology companies is returning to normal levels after a lower-than-usual first quarter, due in no small part to the disruption from the coronavirus pandemi... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | 2020 vulnerabilities expected to exceed last year's | With 11,121 vulnerabilities disclosed during the first half of 2020, as the year progresses the total is expected to exceed that of 2019.
Although the number of vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2020 decreased by 8.2 percent co... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Over 27 billion records exposed in the first half of 2020 | Although reports of data breaches are down 52 percent in the first half of this year, the number of records exposed over the same period has soared to 27 billion.
The latest Data Breach Report from Risk Based Security shows 2,037 publicly r... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Law enforcement agencies are using a legal loophole to buy up personal data exposed by hackers | A company called SpyCloud is selling personal data originally obtained by hackers to law enforcement agencies, Vice reported Wednesday.
Experts told Vice that, while the practice isn't illegal, it effectively lets police bypass processes th... |
| May 11, 2020 | Publicly disclosed breaches are down 58 percent | The total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 has decreased by 58 percent compared to the same period last year according to a new report from Risk Based Security.
Despite the number of breaches being down though, the number of ... |
| Feb 10, 2020 | 15.1 billion records exposed in 2019 as data breaches hit a new high | The total number of records exposed by data breaches increased by 284 percent last year compared to 2018, with over 15.1 billion records exposed in total.
This is one of the findings of the 2019 Year End Data Breach QuickView Report from Ri... |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition | Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019.
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| Aug 23, 2019 | Five vendors account for nearly a quarter of all vulnerabilities | Just five major vendors account for 24.1 percent of disclosed vulnerabilities in 2019 so far, according to a new report from Risk Based Security.
The report also reveals that 54 percent of 2019 vulnerabilities are web-related, 34 percent ha... |
| Aug 15, 2019 | Over 3,800 data breaches reported in the first half of 2019 | 2019 is on track to be another 'worst on record' year for data breaches according to a new report from Risk Based Security which finds the number of reported breaches has gone up by 54 percent and the number of exposed records by 52 percent... |
| May 7, 2019 | Reported data breaches up more than 56 percent | According to the latest Data Breach Report from Risk Based Security the number of reported data breaches was up 56.4 percent in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year.
The increase in reporting could be a result of ... |
| Nov 19, 2018 | Almost a quarter of reported vulnerabilities have no known solution | The number of reported vulnerabilities in 2018 is seven percent down on the same period last year, according to a new report from Risk Based Security.
It's not all good news though, as 24.9 percent of 2018's reported vulnerabilities current... |
| Nov 8, 2018 | Number of data breaches falls but 2018 is still set to be the second worst year on record | In the final quarter of 2018, the number of reported breaches is down by eight percent and the number of exposed records is down around 49 percent, from seven billion in 2017.
The latest Data Breach QuickView report from Risk Based Security... |
| Aug 13, 2018 | Over 10,000 vulnerabilities disclosed this year so far | 2018 looks like it's on track to be another record year for vulnerabilities, with over 10,000 disclosed in the half year to June.
The newly released 2018 mid-year VulnDB QuickView report from Risk Based Security shows that 16.6 percent of t... |
| May 24, 2018 | What “Efail” Tells Us About Email Vulnerabilities and Disclosure | Earlier this month, researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in a large number of encrypted email clients: specifically, those that use OpenPGP and S/MIME, including Thunderbird and AppleMail. These are serious vulnerabilities: An attacker who... |
| May 15, 2018 | Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities continue to rise | The first quarter of 2018 has shown a 1.8 percent increase in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities over the same period in 2017, with 5,375 unique vulnerabilities reported.
This is one of the findings of Risk Based Security's latest Vuln... |
| May 8, 2018 | Data breach activity declines sharply in 2018 | The number of data breaches disclosed in the first three months of this year fell to 686 compared to 1,444 breaches reported in the same period of 2017, according to a new report.
This still represents the exposure of some 1.4 billion recor... |
| Feb 15, 2018 | 2017 breaks record for new vulnerabilities | More than 20,000 new vulnerabilities were cataloged in 2017 according to breach analysis specialist Risk Based Security.
The figures from the company's own VulnDB eclipsed the total covered by MITRE's Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) ... |
| Nov 8, 2017 | More than seven billion records exposed in 2017 data breaches | The first three quarters of 2017 have seen 3,833 breaches reported, exposing over seven billion records, according to a new report.
But the study by Risk Based Security reveals that 78.5 percent of all records exposed came from just five br... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | What You See Is What You Get: Revisions to Our Paper on Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery | We recently published a paper on the rediscovery of software vulnerabilities. This was the final version of a paper that had been in the works since September, peer-reviewed by the WEIS community during the winter, and then circulated for a... |
| May 29, 2017 | Cybersecurity startups will be funded at slower pace and lower valuations than last year | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The current cycle of investment in cybersecurity ... |
| May 29, 2017 | Cybersecurity startups will be funded at slower pace and lower valuations than last year | The current cycle of investment in cybersecurity began in 2012, catalyzed by three major IPOs: Proofpoint, Splunk, and Palo Alto Networks. As is typical, big exits in a space significantly increase investor confidence and drive up supply of... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | Breach exposes at least 58 million accounts, includes names, jobs, and more | Hefin Richards reader comments 52 with 45 posters participating, including story author
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There has been yet another major data breach, this time exposing names, IP addresses... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Group claims to hack NSA-tied hackers, posts exploits as proof | Shadow Brokers reader comments 65 with 60 posters participating
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In what security experts say is either a one-of-a-kind breach or an elaborate hoax, an anonymous group has p... |
| May 18, 2016 | Security firm outs Cabcharge data breach | Taxi payments company Cabcharge is reissuing nearly 3500 payment cards after security researchers uncovered an unsecured database of the firm's transaction details online.
Cabcharge chief Andrew Skelton has admitted the company was notified... |
| May 13, 2016 | Breach of Nulled.io crime forum could cause a world of pain for members | Enlarge
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A website that openly facilitated the brokering of compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins, and ... |
| Jan 3, 2015 | The biggest security debacles of 2014 show that enterprises are still failing at the basics | As 2014 wraps, it’s safe to say that we have had some of the most publicized, devastating data breaches in years, including massive hacks on Target, JP Morgan Chase, and Sony.
But as more details emerge about how those breaches happened, it... |
| Jan 3, 2015 | The biggest security debacles of 2014 show that enterprises are still failing at the basics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As 2014 wraps, it’s safe to say that we have had ... |
| Dec 23, 2014 | The FBI Has Been Wrong About Hacks Against the US Before | The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded last week that North Korea was responsible for the hacks that crippled and publicly embarrassed Sony Pictures Entertainment and its employees. Since then, President Barack Obama has promised to ... |
| Dec 22, 2014 | North Korea loses its Internet, possibly in retaliation for a hack it may not have done | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update 10pm: North Korea’s Internet was restored ... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | Hack of Boxee.tv exposes password data, messages for 158,000 users | A screenshot of the Boxee.tv forums post leading to an 800 megabyte file of leaked user data, including cryptographically hashed passwords.
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| Phishing and stealers dominate dark web forums (but don't mention ransomware) | The malware types and hacking services most discussed over the last year on dark web forums are dominated by phishing, stealers, zero-day attacks, and ransomware.
But the 2021 Year-End Data Breach Report from Risk Based Security finds discu... |
